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I have used the semi-composted mulch from the municipal pile in building my lasagna beds. I also use it as mulch on new flower beds, but now I am beginning to wonder what might be in them that I don't want to put on a vegetable bed. Does anyone have an idea? This stuff is piled up on the side of the road by homeowners, I guess, collected by the city trucks and carted to a mountainous pile, where it will start rotting somewhat over the winter.
But I wonder whether this process, mainly the truck part, could add noxious compounds, that could be absorbed by veggies in my garden? They also scrape up some dirt from the original site, as well as the occasional squashed coke bottle or tooth paste tube.
I have relatively easy access to the pile, just have to shovel it in our little truck and then dump it out again.
What do you think?
Many thanks, C.
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